The insane success of pop idol group AKB48 has sparked the interest and envy of many. For the past few years, founder Yasushi Akimoto has been receiving offers from other countries vying for a piece of the action. It was reported this January that the list of countries hoping to license the rights to the ...

During the last visit to Orchard Road, Yan lead us to Ion Orchard as he wanted to show us an interesting new shop he encountered. It was an outlet of a Hong Kong based refreshment franchise known as Happy Lemon. Happy Lemon serves an assortment of unique drink creations from an equally colorful shop at ...

Japan’s Edo-Tokyo Museum is split into two separate branches. The museum’s modern headquarters is located in north-east Sumida, while the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum lies many miles away at the peaceful city of Koganei. In an attempt to preserve the city’s rich history, a number of buildings from the Meiji era and before have ...

The past month, Japanese design house METEOR has be holding their annual My Famicase Collection exhibition at their shop in Kichijoji. This unconventional art display which has been going on since 2005 has designers come up with original, often whimsical Famicom case designs, the best of which are put up for display. Each cartridge serves ...

We move on to the more recent winter collection of AKB48 x BLT photographs featuring their newer generation of 12th generation kenkyuusei members, of whom Tano Yuuka, Takahashi Juri and Iwata Karen, have been recently promoted to join AKB48′s Team 4. Once again, here’s the series of AKB48 U-17 photos, which have been personally hunted ...

The Tokyo Sky Tree will finally open to the public on 22 May 2012! It was completed in February, after nearly 4 years of construction, but starting tomorrow visitors can finally access and take a ride up the 634 meter tower. Now the tallest structure in Japan (and the second in the whole world), the ...